Anyone else rocking one of these? Seems like they're starting to hit the surplus market, but haven't shot up in value like I've seen with the 29B. A friend of mine picked one up at auction for cheap, and I recently found four of them. I bought two of those, and they're awesome. After years of looking, I still don't have all the adapters I want for the 29B, but these do just about everything right out of the box and are less expensive to boot. They were supported until 2007, so the software situation is a lot better than the 29B. There's a text-graphical UI you can use over a serial port, or TaskLink software for Windows.
One of mine is an earlier model with 4mb RAM expansion, and 12 pin driver boards. It fired right up after I cleaned all the dust bunnies out of the floppy drives. I made some v9.2 disks for it, and it seems to work good.
I got Site48 and SetSite modules, which are the only ones I care about. Unfortunately, only one of each, so not enough for both programmers to be fully functional.
The other is a later model with second rev PCB, 8mb RAM, 17 pin drivers, and mass storage module. It was throwing a RAM error in selftest, but reseating the SIMMs cured it. I think this one is my keeper, the mass storage is more convenient than using floppies. It's all working, but I'm replacing the micro HDD with flash memory, which is on the slow boat. I think after that, this is going to be my default programmer, replacing the 29B and GQ-4x4, but for exceptional cases.
Anyone else using these beasts?
One of mine is an earlier model with 4mb RAM expansion, and 12 pin driver boards. It fired right up after I cleaned all the dust bunnies out of the floppy drives. I made some v9.2 disks for it, and it seems to work good.
I got Site48 and SetSite modules, which are the only ones I care about. Unfortunately, only one of each, so not enough for both programmers to be fully functional.
The other is a later model with second rev PCB, 8mb RAM, 17 pin drivers, and mass storage module. It was throwing a RAM error in selftest, but reseating the SIMMs cured it. I think this one is my keeper, the mass storage is more convenient than using floppies. It's all working, but I'm replacing the micro HDD with flash memory, which is on the slow boat. I think after that, this is going to be my default programmer, replacing the 29B and GQ-4x4, but for exceptional cases.
Anyone else using these beasts?
